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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the best oral history about how the most prominent fixture in late-night TV works so well.  It all started because Johnny Carson wanted Fridays off (and thus, wnated &quot;the Best of Carson&quot; to go on Friday -not Saturday -Night.  Thus, a need was created.<br/><br/>Enter Lorne Michaels....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52902460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an engrossing and sometimes infuriating read. SNL is an undeniable force in pop culture, launching career after career and influencing the cultural memes, but I still had a hard time dealing with the self-important tone of the authors and the people they interviewed. The overall impression ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40668855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book better than a lot of the other books I read about SNL, because it was presented as an oral history. People painted in a negative light in previous books (Chevy Chase &amp; Jean Doumanian, for example) got to tell their sides of the story (Chase is uncharacteristically humble and expres...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66445213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a wonderful oral history of Saturday Night Live from the idea of it to about 2002.  the people interviewed appear to be completely candid regarding their experiences and impressions, whether on their own time with the show or other casts.<br/><br/>if you are interested in the people behind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57977647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was fun to read. It had many quotations and interviews of the writers and cast members over the years (Up to 2000 I think), which gave a great look behind the scenes and how the show works. However, other than a praising account for SNL, the book was pointless. There was no groundbreaking thesi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41777064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished read this book, which is essentially an oral history of SNL.  It's interesting and you get a lot of behind the scenes stuff about how the show is put together and how the people and performers work.  You see the relationships between the show and the network, the interpersonal relation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38086631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[on the Sports Guy's &quot;Table&quot; scale, this book was a definite C. [in short, anything/anyone you encounter either A) brings something to the table, B) brings nothing to the table, or C) takes things OFF the table. metaphorically speaking. my scale goes to D), takes things off the table &amp; then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37365863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As someone who grew up wanting to someday become a comedianne/ future member of S.N.L.(or The Groundlings, Second City) but took a different turn in life, I must say I really enjoyed Live From New York: An Uncensored History of S.N.L. I checked it out from a library when it came out a few years ago ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26507444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is what it says it is. It is really fun and easy to read because its an oral history, just people talking about this thing that the did (or do, at the time of the interviews). The thing that struck me is how varied the experiences were and what each cast member took away from it. Some of the orig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58902278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I would have enjoyed this book more if it came with a little cocaine in the dust jacket.  I'm just saying.<br/>It's a little interesting, I guess.  All we really want to know is how much coke did Chris Farley and John Belushi really do?  And if you were take all that coke and lay it out in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4060787">more...</a>]]></body>
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